During the growing and finishing period, the boars ate less, had better F/G, and were less fat than barrows. A high plane of nutrition (high vs moderate lysine concentrations for the growing-finishing phases) and decreasing ...

A total of three hundred pigs (initial BW
= 111.6 lb) was used in two identical 70-d
growth trials to determine the effect of feeder design on finishing pig growth performance. Pigs were allotted by initial body weight ...

A total of 144 pigs (initial body wt of 10.4 lb) was used in a 56-d growth assay to determine the effects of different soybean
preparations on growth performance and cost
of gain in nursery pigs. Experimental diets
were ...

Pigs fed from wet-dry feeders had 4% greater ADG with 50% less water usage than those consuming feed from dry feeders. Pelleting diets improved F/G by 4% compared to meal diets. However, the benefits of pelleting were ...

Two experiments were conducted to determine the nutritional value of oats and oat products in diets of weanling pigs. In Exp. 1, 115 weanling pigs (avg initial body wt of 12.4 lb and avg age of 19 d) were used in a 38-d ...

Six hundred twenty six pigs (initially 9 lb and 13.2 d of age) were used in a 28-d growth trial to determine the effect of spraydried porcine (SDPP), spray-dried bovine (SDBP), and low-ash porcine plasma (LAPP) on growth ...

A total of 100 weanling pigs with an
average initial body wt of 11.8 lb and average age of 17 d was used in a 38-d growth
assay to determine the effect of castration on growth performance of nursery pigs. All
pigs were ...

Nursery pigs fed complex diets had greater ADG than those fed simple diets, and as particle size was reduced, ADG and F/G
tended to improve. There was a trend for
reducing particle size to increase ADG more
for pigs fed ...